Anne Milton
Anne Frances Milton[1] (née Turner; born 3 November 1955) is a former British politician and lobbyist[2] who served as Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships from 2017 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Guildford from 2005 to 2019. Elected as a Conservative, she had the whip removed in September 2019 and subsequently sat as an independent politician.
Anne Milton
Independent (2019–present)
Conservative (2005–2019)
4, including Nikki Henderson
Early life and career[edit]
Anne Frances Turner was born on 3 November 1955 in Sussex, England to Patrick and Nesta Turner.[3][4] She attended Haywards Heath Grammar School in West Sussex. She trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and obtained a diploma in district nursing from the London South Bank University. Milton worked for the NHS for 25 years as a nurse which included working in primary care, research and supporting palliative care nurses.[5][6] During the 1980s, she was a shop steward for the Royal College of Nursing.[5]
Milton was a councillor for the Borough of Reigate and Banstead from 1999 to 2004 and was Conservative Group leader on the council from 2000 to 2003 and a member of the South East England Regional Assembly.[5][6] She applied to go on the Conservative Party's list of Parliamentary candidates in 1999 and was shortlisted in the selections for Bexhill and Battle and for Bridgwater but was not selected for a seat for the 2001 general election.
Personal life[edit]
She married her first husband Neil Milton in 1979 in Haywards Heath; the couple later divorced. Her second husband, Dr. Graham Henderson, whom she married in February 2000 in Surrey,[31] is a former local medical director at Virgin Healthcare.[32][33] Milton lives in Surrey and has four children,[6] one of whom is yachtswoman Nikki Henderson.[34]